On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 4:31 PM Stan Brown (using GC 4.14) < stan...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 2023-09-16 13:31, R Losey wrote: > > > There are functions to Cut, Copy, and Paste Transactions... I use them > when > > I find I have posted a transaction to the wrong credit card account. > > For those who may not know ... It's also possible simply to change the > wrong credit card to the right one, directly in the original > transaction. If you do it in the account register for the wrong account, > the transaction will disappear from that register (and appear in the > correct account's register, if you have it open) as soon as you press > Enter to commit the transaction. > > There are two main philosophies around correcting transactions. One > thinks in pen-and-ink terms and so will enter a correcting transaction: > in the case of a credit-card transaction that means a debit to the wrong > account and credit to the correct account. The other will correct an > error by editing the original transaction as outlined above. (Some > people will edit a recent transaction but not a transaction that was > entered months ago. That's my own approach.) > > For people's personal finances, it's a matter of taste which approach to > use. I just mentioned editing an old transaction as another possibility. > > Stan Brown > Tehachapi, CA, USA > https://BrownMath.com/ > While I know I can do this, I just keep forgetting to use it when I put a transaction in the wrong account. Personally, I consider using the wrong account akin to a typographical error, and I don't have a problem editing it correctly, as long as that account has not been reconciled... and usually, reconciliation is when I find I made the error. -- _________________________________ Richard Losey rlo...@gmail.com Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
